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URBAN PIONEER
We Were the Urban Pioneers
Our search for the just-right million-dollar condo, in the wilds of Downtown
BY WELLS DUNBAR AND JORDAN SMITH
Developing Stories: Pioneering at Mueller
Urban trailblazers aren't just settling Downtown
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Point Austin: Cops Cost Money
We've been plugging the dike with overtime, and the cracks are showing
BY MICHAEL KING
Polygamist Prophet Update
FLDS leader Jeffs asks that rape-as-accomplice trial be moved; in different case, judge orders him to pay up
BY JORDAN SMITH
Beside the Point
Paul Robbins wants to take City Hall back
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Naked City
On the Lege: A $156 Million Disaster
The Accenture scheme blows up in the state's face
Media Watch: Sunday Morning Blues?
A watchdog group claims that the political talk shows' choice of guests tilts right
BY KEVIN BRASS
The Hightower Report
Politicizing U.S. Attorneys; and Ambassador Spic and Span
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Planting a Seed
Local schools see students not only eating all of their vegetables but growing them, too
BY MICK VANN
Wine of the Week
Randall Grahm, rich weirdo, makes great wine
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Mars, Chow.com, and more
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
March 23-30
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
2006-07 Austin Music Awards Show Encore
Austin Convention Center, Wednesday, March 14
TCB
SXSW 07: a lot of carrying on, a massive jolt of energy, then oblivion
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Funhouse
Jandek, Bill Callahan
Jandek/Bill Callahan
Stooges
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Boris
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Gary Lucas, Gods and Monsters
Gary Lucas/Gods & Monsters
Terry Reid
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Qui With David Yow
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Meat Puppets
The Meat Puppets
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
The Octopus Project, Black Moth Super Rainbow
The Octopus Project + Black Moth Super Rainbow
Field Music
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Marnie Stern
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Uncle Earl
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Deadstring Brothers
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Summer Hymns
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
The Good, the Bad & the Queen
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Federation, the Pack
Bay Area Rap Showcase
Bobby Patterson
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Nick Drake
Nick Drake Remembered
Monterey Pop at 40
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Say It Loud! I'm What? and I'm Proud
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Ponderosa Stomp
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Mary Weiss
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Reigning Sound
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Mando Diao, Fratellis
Mando Diao/The Fratellis
Patrick Watson
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
The Nightwatchman
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Chromeo
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
UGK
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Hugh Cornwell
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
Peter, Bjorn and John
Peter Bjorn & John
Eli "Paperboy" Reed & the True Lovers
Eli "Paperboy" Reed & the True Loves
Best SXSW 07 Showcase
Trolling South by Southwest 2007
screens
Movie Nights
Scenes from SXSW Film 07
Come as You Were
Sarah Kelly and Connie Britton on The Lather Effect
BY TODDY BURTON
Alamo Downtown Heads for Better Digs
Who needs the Warehouse District when you can have the Ritz on Sixth?
BY WELLS DUNBAR
In Play
Reclaim UT's title ... virtually
BY MARK FAGAN
TV Eye
Margin Material
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Trailer Park Boys: Seasons 1 & 2
Alliance Atlantis released the show's collected episodes season by season last year without frills or fanfare, but even without extras, they're worth discovering
Film Reviews
Color Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story
This story about a con man who pretended to be Stanley Kubrick is a playground for star John Malkovich.
Dead Silence
A supernatural thriller about a ventriloquist who goes mad, from the team that brought us Saw.
G.I. Jesus
Jesus Feliciano is a Mexican national who joins the Marines to gain U.S. citizenship and returns home from Iraq with a nasty case of post-traumatic stress disorder.
The Host
This manic monster party from South Korea cleverly updates the Japanese monster-movie genre while offering a witty and sweet look at what's left of the nuclear family.
I Think I Love My Wife
Who would have ever guessed that Chris Rock would be the guy to film an American remake of Eric Rohmer's meditation on fidelity, Chloe in the Afternoon?
The Last Mimzy
Solid performances elevate this mild but hardly magical children's sci-fi story.
Namastey London
Bollywood film about a British girl torn between an arranged marriage in India and her boyfriend back in England.
Premonition
Sandra Bullock again turns toward the supernatural in this thriller in which she plays a housewife who's uncertain whether her husband is alive or dead.
Pride
Based on the true story of Jim Ellis, who created a nationally respected swimming program from an abandoned community center, Pride is a by-the-book sports film.
Reign Over Me
This Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle film is often disjointed and needlessly sentimental, though the film's whole often compensates for its sketchy parts.
Shooter
Mark Wahlberg plays an ex-Marine marksman who is set up to be the fall guy in a government plot.
TMNT
Back on the screen for the first time since the early Nineties, the Ninja Turtles are now animated via CGI, though their plot and character details got lost in the shuffle.
What Love Is
Writer/director Callahan keeps his characters talking from the first frame to the last – and like all great chatterers their preferred topic is love and all its variations.
arts & culture
Site Unseen
"America Starts Here" shows how the pioneering artistic team of Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler made the overlooked visible
BY AMANDA DOUBERLEY
'La Víctima': An old message still needing to be heard
As Teatro Vivo stages La Víctima, a groundbreaking look at Mexican-U.S. immigration, Rupert Reyes and Jorge Huerta discuss the play's origins and relevance
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
'American Fiesta': Big Apple in a Fiestaware bowl
That buzz last summer about an off-Broadway run for Steven Tomlinson's American Fiesta? Consider it confirmed: The show opens in New York on April 26.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
UT Faculty Composers: All-stars take the field
A concert of works by Donald Grantham, Russell Pinkston, Bruce Pennycook, Dan Welcher, and Yevgeniy Sharlat will be a veritable home-run derby of music by UT's compositional heavy hitters
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
The winners of the Amster Youth Concerto Competition tune up, the Biscuit Brothers get buttered up (by the Lege), and Koper scoops up Texas Biennial inside info
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Mambo Italiano
Naughty Austin looks to be "coming out" for a more serious production with the gay "straight" play Mambo Italiano
Hamlet
Vortex Repertory Company's new production of Shakespeare's Hamlet has a strong contemporary feel, but ultimately it diminishes some of the power of the tragedy
'Elaine Bradford: Freaks of Nurture'
In her exhibition "Freaks of Nurture," Elaine Bradford's crochet-covered menagerie of stuffed animals is equal parts lighthearted nonsense and poignant sadness
columns
Page Two: Mea Culpa Redux, and Again Mea Culpa
Confessions of an evil dwarf
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
What a week! Stephen revels in Austin in its top form.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Rodeo Heritage Museum in Dublin, Texas, tells the story of the beginnings of the modern rodeo
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Knows is The first bank robbery and that shifty Sasquatch
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Landlord's Perspective on Tenant Disputes
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: 'Joe Ely's Bonfire of the Roadmaps'
Harry Ransom Center, Thursday, March 22, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
U.S. Men play Ecuador (Sunday) and Guatemala (Wednesday), and more
